 It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 3951786Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 446 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that, were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...for the natural gratification that accompanies it. " If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense pY2 k @ H 288 289 from his hand, but even those benefits which are conveyed to us by others. Every blessing we... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...attended with so much pleasure that, were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the gratification which accompanies it. —Addison* CXVI.—THE BOYS. You hear that boy laughing?—You... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 708 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natura" gratification that accompanies it. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that, were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...for the natural gratification that accompanies it. 2. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker! The Supreme Being does... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 pages
...attended with so much Pleasure, that were there no positive Command which enjoined it, nor any Recompence laid up for it hereafter, a generous Mind would indulge...for the natural Gratification that accompanies it, If Gratitude, when exerted towards one another, nature ally produces a very pleasing Sensation in the... | |
 | Joseph Elias Hayne - 1905 - 202 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...for the natural gratification that accompanies it." I, with much joy, elastic, and bouyant hope decussate the dark and many present discouraging actions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...for the natural gratification that accompanies it. 10 If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pages
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...for the natural gratification that accompanies it." Yes, gentlemen, gratitude is an inherent impulse of a generous mind, one of the purest which influences... | |
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